Just When You Thought It Was Safe…
…to stop reshingling. Sigh.
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The Cross House
Let me chew a wad of gum and stick it that hole in the sheathing….you will never know it was there and it will help the shingle stay on. That is a top from my new book , “Cutting Corners with Bazooka”.
Ugh. I’m sorry, Ross.
Yes it’s hard. It’s unexpected shit like this.
That is raising kids. Every. Day.
She’s your kid.
She takes everything you’ve got.
But she is Worth It.
The last few miles are the hardest.
Just look back at your posts from a year ago. 🥰
Or 3 years ago…or 6 years ago… https://i2.wp.com/restoringross.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/102.jpg
I’m not as old as Ross, but I am close; I am in awe of how much he has accomplished with very little assistance. For an old guy, watching “one of us” pull off the old house equivalent of a Super Bowl victory is exciting and inspiring! Go man, GO!!
Well, hell.
I was showing my husband photos of the south side of the house, before and after, yesterday, so he could appreciate this post. It’s amazing what you’ve accomplished. Can’t wait until you’re done and can stand back and admire the results.
Ahem……
Sigh…….
Shingling restoration on south facade? Never ending story?
South facade restoration ensuing saga seems as if a separate house in complexity. Until rereading and looking as “inching along posts” & compare with a year ago, two years ago or three, four, five and six years past. Cross House macro condition at purchase and enormity of restoration seemed like a big proposition, until examining micro and restoration to original seemed impossible. Really, really, really impossible….
Barb Sanford is right in her comparative retrospection and apply to current perspective.
Accomplishments you have made in six years are unbelievable!
Cross House in its beautiful, rare, unusual very large, immense, gargantuan wholeness is looking amazing!
It’s all due to you and your unfailing exactness.
Never ending shingling will one day be done.
Since most people’s understanding of value is in financial terms, I would love to know how much it would have cost you to pay people to do as thorough a job as you are doing on all of the projects that completion of the Cross House is requiring. I don’t even know if you could locate those who do the caliber of work that you are putting in. I believe that the financial cost would run into untold millions of dollars.
I feel sorry for those who would say that the no house is worth that much of your time or money. If one isn’t able to recognize value in anything they do unless, upon completion, they come out with a big financial profit, then I expect their lives are empty, even if their bank accounts have big balances. What empty lives they must have.
Make no mistake about it, I would certainly like to have big balances in my financial accounts.
Your approach to everything, not just the Cross House, certainly inspires me. I feel that what you are imparting in this blog is priceless. I hope and believe that what you have gotten back in non-monetary support from those of us who follow you, and I don’t mean from me in particular, may have given you more of a return than anything that you could do if you had all of that hypothetical money that you would have needed to lay out to spend. I believe that your work and this blog will be remembered as historic. I think you will be studied and referenced by people for more years than you can imagine for this work and your ethics.
Thanks again.
This Old House!!! They might have taken this on!! But now lots of the hard mechanicals and structural work has already been done by “Master of all Trades”, Ross! Their loss.